Volumetric video visibility encoding mechanism

At least one non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to:

• receive point cloud data including a plurality of images and camera parameters associated with each of a plurality of cameras;
• and
• encode one or more visibility descriptors for each point in the point cloud data to provide visibility information for each point for a plurality of camera views indicated in the camera parameters, wherein a visibility descriptor comprises a bit string descriptor and each bit in the bit string descriptor indicates whether a point is visible from an associated camera of the plurality of cameras, and having a bit order that orders bits according to an association with visible cameras and occluded cameras.

A method to facilitate encoding visibility data for view-dependent video, comprising:

• receiving point cloud data including a plurality of images and camera parameters associated with each of a plurality of cameras;
• and
• encoding one or more visibility descriptors for each point in the point cloud data to provide visibility information for each point for a plurality of camera views indicated in the camera parameters, wherein a visibility descriptor comprises a bit string descriptor and each bit in the bit string descriptor indicates whether a point is visible from an associated camera of the plurality of cameras and having a bit order that orders bits according to an association with visible cameras and occluded cameras.